You can do better than that!

No, I'd rather use something that is actually... well, you know, convenient.

I keep /home on a separate physical drive (HDD for now). Makes an upgrade or moving to a new machine much more pleasant. I use an SVN repo for my backups

The boot time is incredible. The new box also builds 8 different versions of $popular_foss_db from source, one after another, in about 25 minutes. Takes about 2 hours on my laptop, using exactly the same OS, build script, compiler options, gcc version, etc.

(Now if I can just figure out why nouveau does not like my graphics card, and why X doesn't like the Nvidia driver, I'll be a really happy guy.)

Just because you choose to wear ideological blinders doesn't mean that I do.

Just bought a new system that came with the first SSD I've ever owned.

Been wondering whether or not Samsung was a good choice by the folks who built it for me.

I'm guessing this means that it was. Thanks for that. :)

Not so loud! I've house payments to make.

Passive-agressive much?

It's not difficult to troll someone whose entire political-economic philosophy can be summed up as, "Because I don't want to share anything with anyone else, it's wrong for anyone else to share anything, too."

There already exist 'stay put' batteries, so it's not an engineering problem, but rather one of design.

I think you left out a word---the Somali's what? And to which Somali do you refer? (Last I heard there were quite a few of them.)

Now that might be a really entertaining way to spend my retirement. Thanks for the suggestion. :)

I've been sending money internationally for years. I've never had it take longer than a day or so. Perhaps your country should consider joining the international banking system.

Yeah, that business with the Hindenburg was just a passing crisis which in no way halted the worldwide adoption of zeppelins for long distance passenger travel.

(NB: I am a lifelong dirigible fanboi. But I recognise the difference between what I think is cool and what is real.)

Right, I think we get the idea.

That sounds very much like what they were saying around 7:20 PM on 6 May 1937 in Lakehurst, NJ...